We can talk music all day folks, but lets cut to the chase and make the hardest decision of our music obsessed minds: your favourite album...ever.
And if its too hard a decision then candidates for.
After listening to the following album on headphones I can safely say that
Liars - Drums Not Dead
is a definate candidate for me.
An incredible piece of music.
Forever Changes = LOVE
definately in my top 5 without hesitation.
I struggle with thinking of the rest... too many genres... and difficult to define as 'favourite'.
I know its tough
and it changes over time, with your tastes.
definItely
Stereolab's 'Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements'
This is far too difficult to do on a whim...
BUT, my top 5 would have to contain:
Neil Young - Everybody Knows...
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Icarus Line - Penance Soiree
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
But this'll change on an almost monthly basis.
I now realise
that you really just wanted one...so I don't know.
No candidates for is also good
after all deciding this so quickly is very difficult.
Beulah - Handsome Western States
I have three. It's pretty much impossible for me to choose between:
Veils - Runaway Found
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
David Thomas Broughton - The Complete Guide to Insuffiency
Defo...
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
per decade
2000's : Sunset rubdown - Shut up I'm dreaming
1990's : Pulp - This is hardcore
1980's : Talking heads - Stop Making Sense
1970's : The Clash - The Clash/London Calling
1960's : Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
This list is subject to change every 6 months
one of these. can't decide.
1. Arcade Fire - Funeral
2. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
3. Nick Drake - Bryter Later
4. Radiohead - Kid A
5. Sigur Ros - Agatis Byrjun / Takk / ( )
6. Blur - Think Tank
7. Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children / Geogaddi / The Campfire Headphase
8. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
9. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
10. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dark Place
11. Jeff Buckley - Grace
12. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
13. Kings of Leon - A Ha Shake Heartbreak
14. M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
15. Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Love Bad News
16. Patrick Wolf - Lycanthropy
17. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
18. The Postal Service - Give Up
19. Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
20. The Wrens - Meadowlands
21. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
22. Howling Bells - Howling Bells
23. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030
24. Fourtet - Pause / Rounds
25. Hot Chip - The Warning
26. M.I.A - Arular
27. Metric - Live it Out / Grow up and Blow Away / Old World Underground, Where are you Now?
28. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
29. Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
30. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
31. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
32. Super Furry Animals - Guerilla / Love Kraft / Radiator / Rings Around the World / Phantom Power
33. Thom Yorke - Eraser
34. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James
35. Asobi Seksu
36. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
37. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake it's Morning
38. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
39. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine / More Parts Per Million / Fuckin A
40. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..
41. Forward Russia! - Give Me A Wall
42. Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Minder
43. The Knife - Silent Shout
44. Mates of State - Team Boo
45. My Morning Jacket - Z
46. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
47. RJD2 - Dead Ringer
48. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
49. Vitalic - OK Cowboy
50. Battles - Mirrored
i choose
radiohead - kid a (it feels like blasphemy choosing just 1!! - like you have to put in caveats!!)... it changes the whole time to be fair
not
Hey Venus? :)
i still haven't
got drums not dead. am trying again now
loveless
by mbv. fo' sure.
^
fo' sure
thats tough
i think i might have to go for burn piano island burn. or young machetes.
Favourite album ever
= Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
contenders would be
Weezer - Blue
Pixies - Doolittle
Pavement - Crooked Rain
Brian Wilson - Smile
The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
There are three albums
that I doubt anything will ever beat in my head but they tend to argue a lot as to which of them is the best.
In chronological order
New York Tendaberry by Laura Nyro
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel
69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields
Yeah, I'm the same with three albums
and we share NMH. Hoorah!
I could produce a huge list of maybes,
but
Good Morning Spider by Sparklehorse provides all the musical sustinance I need on a single disc.
Hope is Important by Idlewild is what I usually say
Relationship of Command and Kid A have also been given as answers, however.
illinois by Sufjan Stevens.
It has nearly everything I could ever want in an album. It's stunning.
Kid A
then Zitilites by Kashmir and Spiderland by Slint, everything else can fuck right off.
Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
or
At The Club - Kenickie
I can't be sure.
Hey!
You're cool!
Probably
The Verve - A Storm In Heaven.
Or maybe The Velvet Underground and Nico.
Automatic For The People - R.E.M.
has been my favourite since I was 15.
Just one is too hard and would be different next week...
Wowee Zowee by Pavement...Blue by Joni Mitchell...Secret Treaties by Blue Oyster Cult...Those Who Tell The Truth (etc) by Explosions In The Sky...American Water by Silver Jews
It's probably one of these five, I hope.
I got American Water this year
It's great isn't it?
It's just wonderful and it really keeps getting better.
It's one of those albums where you think you know what your favourite track is and then a few months later it changes. And again. And again. I've gone through Send In The Clouds, Random Rules, now it's probably Smith and Jones. I think its Berman's best and anyone who loves Malkmus should get hold of a copy. His playing is perfectly understated and devastatingly effective.
probably
guided by voices - bee thousand
for me, it's probably between
Doves- Lost Souls
Radiohead - Kid A
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Snowden- Anti-Anti
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
and
The Knife - Silent Shout
all recent but all spectacular.
Yeah, Jesus, I didn't include this. What's wrong with my memory?
though I probably like Alien Lanes as much. If you're allowed to say that, of course.
RAW POWER
On balance, its
Pavement - Wowee Zowee
Funeral
Cheers
Ys by Joanna Newsom
nothing comes close
^ on my list
Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate
Cheers.
Steve
I've never heard any Sunny Day Real Estate. Worth checking out (stupid question as you've put it as your favourite album)?
Pulp
Either His n Hers of Different Class.
probably different class if I'm honest though I tend to say his n hers to be cool. and cos it was the first album I owned.
Oh God... umm...
I'll go for...
Twelve - Be Careful What You Don't Wish For
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Yo
sgt pepper obvs.
for 10 years now
Scream, Dracula, Scream! - Rocket From The Crypt
although, This is Disastercore by Down I Go is a very close second.
Miami - The Gun Club
no question
A little known record
Called "Everybody Down" by a band called Matthew. Amazing
^i have this
quite good, vey jeff buckley-esque though. did they record anything else?
Hissing Prigs In Static Couture by Brainiac
Pearl Jam - Ten
the Cure - faith
closely followed by Low - I could live in hope and Catchers - mute.
Without a doubt my 3 favourite albums ever.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Green Day - Kerplunk
I love that album!
you obviously have wonderful taste, Mr K!
:-D
Niandra la des and usually just a t shirt - John frusciante
I love it. See that other thread or pm me if you want a sampler of it. It has backwards guitar solos, screaming, tape hiss and brilliant guitar.
Or i'm tempted to say Kid A or even Ys. Both phenomenal albums.
am very tempted to say
Postal Service - Give Up, every time I put it on it's like crack, I just keep listening to it again and again... I've had so many favourite records but they've all finally lost position after infinity plays but this, and perhaps Trail of Dead's Source Tags still stand up to repeated listens and don't sound tired and dated when the new flavour of the month kicks in.
astral weeks
.
good choice
Rated R- Queens of the Stone Age
Pink Floyd
Dark Side of The Moon
Nothing has ever came close to this record and what it stands for........nothing probably ever will
The build up and kick in on Time is unreal
Hot Damn! by Every Time I Die
Because it has never ever felt over played, or any less exciting than when I first heard it. Four years on and I can still listen to it every day and absolutely fucking love it.
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
nothing to touch it since I got it 10 years ago.
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by GY!BE
It has everything.
Runner-up: 'For Hero: For Fool' by Subtle.
Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
by Sparklehorse
The first experimental folk tinged rock album I ever heard and one which significantly changed my view on music. It is lyrically inventive yet totally baffling at the same time.
One of only a handful of 10/10 albums I own. A masterpiece.
Agreed.
Forgot this one and it is pretty wonderful. See how difficult this kind of shit is?
Also forgot You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr.
Back when I was 20 I probably could have given you a top 10 in order. Get's a lot harder as you get older, trust me.
Probably, in no particular order.
Sex Pistols - never mind the bollocks
Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
Lou Reed - Transformer
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust.
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Mother and the Addicts - Take the lovers home tonight.
Trout Mask Replica
always has been always will be you eejits
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
or
Rapeman - Two Nuns And A Pack Mule
hmm
the eighties matchbox b-line disaster-horse of the dog
Yourcodenameis:milo-all roads to fault
patrick wolf-lycanthropy
Radiohead-ok computer
65daysofstatic-one time for all time
part chimp-i am come
reuben-racecar is racecar bacwards
million dead-a song to ruin
Mogwai-cody
Heh heh!
"Let's cut to the chase and name our favourite album ever...Drum's Not Dead is a definite candidate for me!"
Mine is 'Hunky Dory'.
I know
just when I was feeling decisive I bottled it.
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
is definitely my favourite album of all time even though I have over-listened to it
others include What Fun Life Was by Bedhead, In on the Killtaker by Fugazi and singles compilations by the Smiths and Buzzcocks (don't really count I suppose).
Loveless or Relationship of Command
No mention of The Soft Bulletin here is a surprise...
id say
low: chairkickers
pinkerton
I think this album literally saved my life
.
'Seventeen Seconds'
Ys, Lycanthropy, Vespertine, Electric Ladyland, This Way Out
Yes, This Way Out.
By IDAHO.
The invisible band.
EEEEKKKKK!!!!
I don't know.. Top 5(ish)?
Alligator - The National
Forever Changes - Love
Reckoning - REM
Picaresque - Decemberists
Blur - Blur
^
The The - Soul Mining
The Sophtware Slump
It's just perfect
Mine
is probably David Bowie's 'Heroes', although obviously picking just one album as your all time favorite is a bit arbitrary.
owls
has been hovering very close the top for me for a few years now. it's really hard to choose just one.
No one's mentioned them so...
...for me it might just be one of:
'Laughing Stock';
'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot';
'Hex';
'& Yet & Yet'; or
'Lifes Rich Pageant'.
I find it hard to believe that anyone can honestly simply "cut to the chase" and name their favourite album ever.
One more thing
Oh, and I fucking HATE 'Drum's Not Dead'.
The Appleseed Cast - Two Conversations.
I have no idea why.
Tool
Aenima
top 5
- aphex twin: drucqs
- pavement: crooked rain
- venetian snares: rosskilgz...
- glassjaw: worship and tribute
- beach boys: pet sounds